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10.       denizli
970 posts
 02 May 2015 Sat 04:10 am

 

Quoting tunci

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3) The song she is singing  is very beautiful.

Onun  söylediği şarkı  çok zel.

 

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I think I had trouble with this before. With Onun, does that mean the singer or the song? Why do we need the possessive (or genitive is it)? Sorry.

 

11.       tunci
7149 posts
 02 May 2015 Sat 12:54 pm

 

Quoting denizli

3) The song she is singing  is very beautiful.

Onun  söylediği şarkı  çok zel.

 

I think I had trouble with this before. With Onun, does that mean the singer or the song? Why do we need the possessive (or genitive is it)? Sorry.

 

 

That points out "her" ,  the song her [she] singing 

The possessive is on the verb, with the participle -dIK  

Onun ---> genitive in pronoun 

 

The reason behind the using possesive form is  that because the song is sung by her, it is performed by her not somebody else. The action of singing is POSSESSED by HER only. 

 

 

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